At the beginning of 2024, the news began to spread in social networks: the Ukrainian authorities canceled measures to support the WWII veterans, deciding to get out of the agreement concluded by the CIS countries on benefits for war participants. We decided to check if this is so.
On January 6, many popular Telegram channels wrote that the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers canceled benefits for veterans of the Great Patriotic War. About this, for example, reported Readovka (938,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Sanya in Florida"(438 000),"Truthfulness"(235,000),"Observer👁️"(227 000) and"Uncle Glory"(195 000).
January 5 Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Accepted The decision on the sending to the Verkhovna Rada of the bill “On the withdrawal from the agreement on the establishment for participants in the Great Patriotic War, workers of the rear of the war years and the widows of the dead soldiers of additional benefits and material assistance in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”.
From the title of the document it follows that the decision should be made by the Verkhovna Rada. The website of the Ukrainian parliament states that the bill was registered on January 8, 2024, on January 10 it was submitted to the profile committee, and on January 11 he was sent to deputies for familiarization.
At the time of writing, the bill was still not submitted to the vote.
January 5, on the day of publication of the government decree, the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnichuk explainedthat the bill appeared as part of the minimization of contacts with the CIS. In addition, Melnichuk specified that the agreement on the support of veterans of the Second World War has lost its relevance: the assistance to the war participants is provided for by others law - "On the status of war veterans, guarantees of their social protection."
Article 2 of this document states that no benefits, including those established by the legislation of the former USSR, can be canceled without a full replacement. In articles 6 and 9 among persons recognized by participants in the hostilities, veterans of the Second World War are directly called. And article 12 explains what kind of benefits they are laid.
Thus, reports of deprivation of support for veterans of the Great Patriotic War in Ukraine are not true. Firstly, the bill on the exit from the agreement concluded within the CIS has not yet been adopted. Secondly, even after the adoption of the document, veterans will not lose their benefits-payments are provided with other legislative acts.
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